Analysts in the Trenches: Streets, Schools, War Zones

ISBN-13: 9781138462236 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Bruce Sklarew

Opis

This volume illustrates what socially engaged analysts can offer to violent and disturbed communities. Contributors bring analytic expertise to bear on the emotional sequelae to violence, including sexual and physical abuse; to multiple and traumatic losses; and to learning inhibitions.

Spis treści

Introduction. Reverberations of Danger, Trauma, and PTSD on Group Dynamics. Life Without Walls: Violence and Trauma Among the Homeless. From the Events of History to a Sense of History: Aspects of Transgenerational Trauma and Brutality in the African-American Experience. Concurrent Intervention During Massive Community Trauma: An Analyst's Experience at Ground Zero. After the Violence: The Internal World and Linking Objects of a Refugee Family. Topeka's Healthy Community Initiative: A Psychoanalytic Model for Change. A Retired Psychoanalyst Volunteers to Promote School-Based Mental Health. The Uses of Aggression: Healing the Wounds of War in a Community Context. The School-Based Mourning Project: A Preventive Intervention in the Cycle of Inner-City Violence. Psychoanalytic Responses to Violent Trauma: The Child Development-Community Policing Partnership. Children's Exposure to Community Violence: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Evaluation and Treatment. Early Mental Health Intervention and Prevention: The Implications for Government and the Wider Community.

O autorze

Bruce Sklarew, M.D., is Principal Investigator, School-Based Mourning Project, Wendt Center for Loss and Healing, Washington, DC.

Stuart W. Twemlow, M.D., is Director, Peaceful Schools and Communities Research Program, Menninger Clinic, and Professor of Psychiatry, Baylor School of Medicine, Houston, TX.

Sallye M. Wilkinson, Ph.D., teaches as the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute.